Dems won?t act even at $10 per gallon

[Keeko]

You can watch the video here.http://hotair.com/archives/2008/07/3...10-per-gallon/

How high will Democrats let the price of gas get before considering the option of drilling for more oil? Ken Salazar (D-CO) has set the bar in today?s action in the Senate. Gas can hit $10 per gallon and the Democrats still won?t act:

Let a thousand television ads bloom. Even Floridians and Californians now support drilling in the OCS:
With gas prices hovering at $4 a gallon, a majority of Floridians now support drilling for oil in protected areas offshore, according to a new poll.
The survey finds support for drilling at 60 percent, with 10 percent of respondents telling pollsters that they?d opposed offshore drilling in the past. Thirty-six percent of respondents said they remain opposed to offshore drilling.

And ?.
A majority of Californians favor more oil drilling off the coast, according to a statewide survey released Wednesday, for the first time since oil prices spiked nearly three decades ago.
The support by 51 percent of residents polled this month by the Public Policy Institute of California represents a shift caused by renewed Republican advocacy for drilling as well as motorists? reaction to soaring pump prices, according to the pollster.

Republicans should use a very simple message. We have enough oil to satisfy American needs for at least the next 100 years, but Democrats won?t let you have it. They?d rather you pay $10 per gallon at the pump and watch food prices increase 250% rather than agree to drilling. If you don?t want $10 per gallon gas, vote Republican.

 

[djv]

Kool Aid drinkers say Dem's been in power last 8 years and cause all problems. 76% of Amricans say they know truth. We been Bushed.

 

[Jabberwocky]

Kookoo watches the price of gas quadruple under a republican admin with a republican congress for 6of those years and blames the dems. Not the brightest bulb on the tree.

 

[Roger Baltrey]

I love the republicans. They are fully in charge for 6 years and in charge of executive for 8 and they blame Dems for price of gas. That's a great trick. Again I will ask what has Bush done to reduce demand for Oil which we will never be self sufficient on and which comes almost exclusively from crazy unstable countries. And even if "most Californians" want off shor drilling, the ones who own property on and use the Pacific ocean don't. The Idiot in Charge should have thought about this years ago and now he is pointing fingers.

 

[The Sponge]

Study shows Fox News viewers and nitwit neocon radio listeners are misinformed about war, oil prices, Iraq, WMD and anything else dealing with common sense



I have naively believed for years that staying informed about current events by getting some news is better than blissful ignorance derived from getting no news. Then Fox News Channel helped demonstrate just how wrong I was.

The Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland conducted a thorough study of public knowledge and attitudes about current events and the war on terrorism. Researchers found that the public?s mistaken impressions of three facets of U.S. foreign policy ? discovery of alleged WMD in Iraq, alleged Iraqi involvement in 9/11, and international support for a U.S. invasion of Iraq ? helped fuel support for the war.

While the PIPA study concluded that most Americans (over 60%) held at least one of these mistaken impressions, the researchers also concluded that Americans? opinions were shaped in large part by which news outlet they relied upon to receive their information.

As the researchers explained in their report, ?The extent of Americans? misperceptions vary significantly depending on their source of news. Those who receive most of their news from Fox News are more likely than average to have misperceptions. Those who receive most of their news from NPR or PBS are less likely to have misperceptions. These variations cannot simply be explained as a result of differences in the demographic characteristics of each audience, because these variations can also be found when comparing the demographic subgroups of each audience.?

Almost shocking was the extent to which Fox News viewers were mistaken. Those who relied on the conservative network for news, PIPA reported, were ?three times more likely than the next nearest network to hold all three misperceptions. In the audience for NPR/PBS, however, there was an overwhelming majority who did not have any of the three misperceptions, and hardly any had all three.?

Looking at the misperceptions one at a time, people were asked, for example, if the U.S. had discovered the alleged stockpiles of WMD in Iraq since the war began. Just 11% of those who relied on newspapers as their ?primary news source? incorrectly believed that U.S. forces had made such a discovery. Only slightly more ? 17% ? of those who relied on NPR and PBS were wrong. Yet 33% of Fox News viewers were wrong, far ahead of those who relied on any other outlet.

Likewise, when people were asked if the U.S. had ?clear evidence? that Saddam Hussein was ?working closely with al Queda,? similar results were found. Only 16% of NPR and PBS listeners/viewers believed that the U.S. has such evidence, while 67% of Fox News viewers were under that mistaken impression.

Overall, 80 percent of those who relied on Fox News as their primary news source believed at least one of the three misperceptions. Viewers/listeners/readers of other news outlets didn?t even come close to this total.

In other words, Fox News viewers are literally less informed about these basic facts. They have, put simply, been led to believe things that are simply not true. These poor dupes would have done better in this survey, statistically speaking, if they received no news a t all and simply guessed whether the claims were accurate.

And, in addition to a fun bash-Fox-athon, I wanted to add that the PIPA study also documented that those who relied on newspapers as their primary news source were better informed than those who watched any of the television news broadcasts. The only folks more informed than newspaper readers were NPR listeners.
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[bleedingpurple]

Most Republicans are in utter denial.

 

[Trench]

The entire premise that new offshore drilling leases will lower gas prices is laughable. But Republicans will keep "drilling" messages like this into the Amercian consciousness because they know how easily an uninformed citizenry can be duped. Unfortunately, their contempt for the electorate is all too often rewarded.

 

[Spytheweb]

Say we drill tomorrow, where are we going to put all that oil? We don't have enough refineries. One more thing, the oil that is drilled, why do you think it will stay in the US and not go on the world market, to the highest bidder?


There are plenty of reasons gas costs so much, but one of them is that the United States doesn't have enough refineries. The National Petrochemicals and Refiners Association says that the last new refinery built in the United States was Marathan Ashland's Garyville, La., plant?and it was completed in 1976. According to this report, between 1999 and 2002 refining capacity in the United States rose only 3 percent, squeezing up prices since demand grew much faster than that.

 

[justin22g]

Most Republicans are in utter denial.

You are right on with that comment..

I get in arguments with friends that have no clue about what they are arguing about

 

[Hard Times]

The bigger problem lies in the transfer of wealth to middle east countries.In short,we have made alot of countries rich and they absolutely hate the United States.Fact #1 is that 35 years ago OPEC produced 30 million barrels a day,today they produce 32 million.Fact #2 This is a monopoly that has controlled the price of oil.Fact #3 That when EQUADOR and ANGOLA," Which supplied 2.4 million barrels a day to the world market" join OPEC you would think that supply would increase FALSE! OPEC just reduced production by 2.5 million still at 32 million,so in reality they took 2.4 million barrels off the market. OPEC has plenty of oil and they love BUSH,father and son.So in 35 years OPEC has increased oil production by 2 million not enough to keep up with world demand with China and India consuming more and more.Fact#4 And pay attention if we start drilling today and we use our 3% of total oil supply in the world it want change the price .WHY YOU ASK. OPEC will just reduce production. We must break this monopoly.Yes ,if there is 85 million barrels on the world market then if demand is 86 then oil must stay high.OPEC is a big problem.
Jan 1999 oil was 16.00 a barrel Increased oil production from what country is the reason for 16.00 a barrel oil ,GUESS ,go ahead and GUESS yes you GUESSED it IRAQ and also the Asian financial crisis was the reasons for 16.00 price. Big oil was thrown out of Iraq when SADDAM took power and they've wanted back in ever since. Saddam was a big problem , he talked of selling oil for EUROS and not taking the dollar,this signed his death certificate .WAR plans where on the table before they stoled the election.
Now lets use some common sense,surely we have some common sense,if you don't then this info can't help.Bush takes office in Jan. 2000.In Sept. oil is at 36.00 big money and oil people know that war is coming they just don't know the date.The war itself drove the price high and speculation of war with IRAN continue to drive it sky high.Now oil is 45-50 a barrel in Sept.2004=NOV it's 53=DEC it's 55.In June 2005 it's 60. My thought on this is that BIG OIL owns the politicians. They "the politicians " are bought and in BIG OILS pocket and they are an enabler to the plan. BIG OIL said lets go higher,how much will they pay before they stop wasting so much Life is to easy for these wasteful bastards.The American citizen has got too much and BIG OIL is going to put a stop to it
Banks and Bankers have stolen trillions in wealth from the housing market.This shit just don't happen by accident this is a plan implemented by BANKERS,POLITICTIANS Lets quote BOONE PICKENS=A TRANSFER OF WEALTH LIKE WE HAVE NEVER SEEN.
Back to OIL,Oct.2007 oil hits 90.00,why,they tell us that there is tension in eastern Turkey and of course the dollar is devalued and to me this is the main reason,speculation is high and the dollar isn't worth shit.
At this time Cheney invest in Euros and bets against the dollar,I believe an act of treason.
Now,in Jan of 2008 oil is at 100.00 and stays there for two months,then in March 12th oil hits 110.00 May 9th 125.00 May 21st 130 May 22nd hits 135=June 26th 140.00=July 3rd 145 and then it hit the all time high of 147.27 over concerns of Iranian missle test. WAG THE DOG. Now some one tell me why oil has fallen almost 30.00 in three weeks. The Election is near,might this be the reason. 8 Years ago 16.00 now 118.00 as of 8/05/08.Give me some feed back. Is it me or are there some that see it my way.

 

[The Sponge]

The bigger problem lies in the transfer of wealth to middle east countries.In short,we have made alot of countries rich and they absolutely hate the United States.Fact #1 is that 35 years ago OPEC produced 30 million barrels a day,today they produce 32 million.Fact #2 This is a monopoly that has controlled the price of oil.Fact #3 That when EQUADOR and ANGOLA," Which supplied 2.4 million barrels a day to the world market" join OPEC you would think that supply would increase FALSE! OPEC just reduced production by 2.5 million still at 32 million,so in reality they took 2.4 million barrels off the market. OPEC has plenty of oil and they love BUSH,father and son.So in 35 years OPEC has increased oil production by 2 million not enough to keep up with world demand with China and India consuming more and more.Fact#4 And pay attention if we start drilling today and we use our 3% of total oil supply in the world it want change the price .WHY YOU ASK. OPEC will just reduce production. We must break this monopoly.Yes ,if there is 85 million barrels on the world market then if demand is 86 then oil must stay high.OPEC is a big problem.
Jan 1999 oil was 16.00 a barrel Increased oil production from what country is the reason for 16.00 a barrel oil ,GUESS ,go ahead and GUESS yes you GUESSED it IRAQ and also the Asian financial crisis was the reasons for 16.00 price. Big oil was thrown out of Iraq when SADDAM took power and they've wanted back in ever since. Saddam was a big problem , he talked of selling oil for EUROS and not taking the dollar,this signed his death certificate .WAR plans where on the table before they stoled the election.
Now lets use some common sense,surely we have some common sense,if you don't then this info can't help.Bush takes office in Jan. 2000.In Sept. oil is at 36.00 big money and oil people know that war is coming they just don't know the date.The war itself drove the price high and speculation of war with IRAN continue to drive it sky high.Now oil is 45-50 a barrel in Sept.2004=NOV it's 53=DEC it's 55.In June 2005 it's 60. My thought on this is that BIG OIL owns the politicians. They "the politicians " are bought and in BIG OILS pocket and they are an enabler to the plan. BIG OIL said lets go higher,how much will they pay before they stop wasting so much Life is to easy for these wasteful bastards.The American citizen has got too much and BIG OIL is going to put a stop to it
Banks and Bankers have stolen trillions in wealth from the housing market.This shit just don't happen by accident this is a plan implemented by BANKERS,POLITICTIANS Lets quote BOONE PICKENS=A TRANSFER OF WEALTH LIKE WE HAVE NEVER SEEN.
Back to OIL,Oct.2007 oil hits 90.00,why,they tell us that there is tension in eastern Turkey and of course the dollar is devalued and to me this is the main reason,speculation is high and the dollar isn't worth shit.
At this time Cheney invest in Euros and bets against the dollar,I believe an act of treason.
Now,in Jan of 2008 oil is at 100.00 and stays there for two months,then in March 12th oil hits 110.00 May 9th 125.00 May 21st 130 May 22nd hits 135=June 26th 140.00=July 3rd 145 and then it hit the all time high of 147.27 over concerns of Iranian missle test. WAG THE DOG. Now some one tell me why oil has fallen almost 30.00 in three weeks. The Election is near,might this be the reason. 8 Years ago 16.00 now 118.00 as of 8/05/08.Give me some feed back. Is it me or are there some that see it my way.

:mj07: :mj07: Good luck Donnie. On this site we have guys fighting for oil companies rights.:142smilie It is actually kinda hysterical. Only in this country the sneaks and thieves can brainwash the suckers into thinking every freaking thing that helps an American worker is bad and everything that kills the backbone of the middle class is good. Go look at the way McCain talks about trade deals. Its like an insane baffoon. These rotten trade deals he openly loves is the reason both husband and wife have to hold jobs instead of one staying home to raise the kids. The only jobs the right have ever created are all in the child care industry. I think McCain loves trade deals just because of the name trade. Funny how a business man Ross Perot talked about Nafta and how it was a bad deal for us but the politicians who made him sound like a loose cannon were the ones to be proven wrong. (grammar and spelling not reviewed)

 

[Roger Baltrey]

And ask anyone who actually uses the offshore areas:

Fisherman
Surfers
Property Owners


If they want Oil Derricks going up. Bush's own brother who was Guv of Florida is against this. I gotta admit though the Repubs are genius for blaming the dems. They ran the government for the last 8 years and gave Oil companies every thing they could have ever wanted. We get super expensive gas prices and the dems get blamed! :mj07: :mj07: :mj07: :mj07: :mj07: